As it’s commonly understood, landscape photography is representation of  untouched beauty of nature through an image. For example a pristine mountain range shrouded in early morning fog, or a peaceful lake without a human being in sight.

In Altered Landscapes we sometimes see meadows and mountains, but they’re not presented to us only as images of beauty. Instead, they reflect how the environment has been changed by humans—often for the worse. In the altered landscaped genre humans rarely appear in the photographs yet their presence is undeniable.

Not only are altered realities/landscape photos a reference to human destruction in our world and a juxtaposition of the standardized landscape photographs but, they could also be standard landscape photo that has been altered within Photoshop or another equivalent. I believe this style can produce some very interesting and unique photographs which are highly influential in allowing an appreciation for the editing skills as well as conveying messages and telling stories.